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Robert Comstock of Cal Poly San Luis Obsipo, and Sean Lam, University of Washington, have achieved the first simulations of an Unmanned Autonomous Systems (UAS) aircraft that will support a variety of aerodynamic analyses in support of future science missions.…

Members of the National Suborbital Research Center (NSRC) recently returned from Ramstein, Germany, after supporting a joint research project with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Adam Webster (Mission Director), Kelly Edmond (Mission Director-in-training), Dave van Gilst (data system and Satcom…

BAER Institute's Dr. Irina Kitiashvili of the Heliophysics Modelling and Simulation Project at NASA Ames served as the primary convener of “Advances in Observations, Data-Constrained Modeling, and Predictions of Solar Activity from the Deep Interior to the Corona” at the…

This past summer, thirty-two undergraduate students completed a NASA summer internship designed to provide them with an airborne Earth science research experience. The NASA Student Airborne Research Program (SARP) is run by the National Suborbital Research Center at the BAER…

BAER Institute participants in the recent ORACLES mission received recognition for their invaluable service to this Earth Venture Science mission. The breadth of talent included efficient logistics management, weather forecasting, and maintaining reliable instrument performance. The dedication of BAERI scientists…

BAER Institute’s Dr. Partha Bera, along with Alexander Tielens of Leiden University, in the Netherlands, recently hosted an international symposium at the American Chemical Society’s fall national meeting at Washington DC. The symposium, held August 20 to 24, 2017, covered,…

Today, June 23 2017, the breakthrough results “On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic waves” appeared in the journal Science. This work was produced as part of a collaboration led by BAER’s Dr. J. Martínez-Sykora with Prof. Bart De…

On April 27, 2017, the journal Atmospheric Chemistry Physics published an article led by Dr. Susan Kulawik introducing new analysis of near-infrared observations from the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). GOSAT, also known as “Ibuki”, meaning “breath” in Japanese, was…

Dr. Juan Torres-Perez will lead a joint effort by BAER Institute, NASA, researchers from the University of Puerto Rico, and citizen scientists to study the bleaching of coral reefs off the coast of Puerto Rico. Globally, coral reefs have been experiencing…